Events - June, 20, 2012

Legal/Politics/Economics, Performing Arts/Film

Paula Zahn

An extremely versatile thirty-year news veteran, who also debuted at Carnegie Hall on the cello, Paula Zahn currently hosts On the Case with Paula Zahn for the...

Art/Photo/Design

Paolo Veronese: "Marvels in Drawing and then in Coloring"

Veronese was one of the most extraordinary and prolific draftsmen in sixteenth-century Venetian art. In this lecture Xavier F. Salomon, Curator of Southern Baroque Paintings,...

Art/Photo/Design

Shock of the Best. How the Field Determines Quality

Speaker: Randall Morris, gallerist and writer This talk will focus on how artists in the field of non-academic art come to be considered Old Masters...

Art/Photo/Design

"Tastebreakers": Art in the Afternoon with Karen Finley

Join internationally renowned artist and educator Karen Finley as she guides viewers through single works of art from Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Antoin Murphy on "The World's First Stock Market Boom and Collapse: John Law and the Mississippi System"

Antoin E. Murphy is a retired Professor in the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin and a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. He has...

Art/Photo/Design

Linear Thinking: Mary Cassatt's prints with Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews, Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art Emerita, Williams College Museum of Art

Of all of Cassatt's works, this series of original prints exploits the power of line in every sense of the word and evokes the artist's...

Performing Arts/Film

Pre-Concert Talk

Want to know more about the music you'll be hearing? Concert ticket holders are invited to join us one hour before concert time for an...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books, History/NYC

David Maraniss - Barack Obama: The Story

In his new book, author David Maraniss focuses in part on an early, little-known period in the life of the future president -- his relationships,...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Alex Stone - Fooling Houdini

Alex Stone, journalist and part-time conjurer, reveals the science behind the art of magicians and mentalists in his book. Following a discussion, Mr. Stone will...

Performing Arts/Film

Impresarios of the Revue and Their Legacy

The true pioneers of the American Revue forever changed musical theater and film and began popular culture revolutions around the world. How did they do...

Books, History/NYC

Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist by Thomas Peele

In Killing the Messenger, award-winning investigative reporter Thomas Peele examines the genesis and development of the Black Muslim movement in America including the Black Muslim...

Performing Arts/Film

Marc Courtade on the Iconic Barbara Streisand

Join Marc Courtade for a look at one of the most commercially and critically successful women in modern entertainment history and the best-selling female recording...

Performing Arts/Film